SILCHAR, Jan 2: With a mission to create mass awareness on blood
donation, twenty members of Barak Valley Voluntary Blood Donors’ Forum
on ten motor cycles left the town today for Wagah, a village, bordering
Pakistan.
As part of its campaign, the motor cycle rally, which is organized to commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda by the Forum, was kicked off from Sutarkandi in Karimganj district, bordering Bangladesh, yesterday. After taking shelter in the town, they started for Haflong early in this morning and will take night halt there, before starting for Guwahati on the following day.
The rally will move through 150 districts of the country and later would assemble at Wagha, a village in Punjab, bordering Pakistan and from where they will again return back to Sutarkandi on February 7, covering around 8,600 km distance. It will move through the eight State capitals of the country- Shillong, Guwahati, Kolkata, Ranchi, Lucknow, Delhi and Chandigarh.
Among 20 participants, there are 7 government employees. The oldest participant is Hiralal Debnath, a 63-year-old retired employee, and the youngest is Biswa Kalyan Purkayastha, a 24 year-old-student. The longest rally ever organized by any forum in Northeast to create awareness on blood donation, will cross around 4,290 km distance on its way to Wagah, while returning back to Sutarkandi, it will cover around 4,435 km. Moreover, 30 members of the West Bengal Voluntary Blood Donors’ Forum will join this rally at Barasat of West Bengal.
The Forum will hold street corner meetings to disseminate the messages of voluntary blood donation.
At a time when the entire country is undergoing through a social degradation, this attempt by the Forum has earned applaud from all sections of the society. Ashu Paul, secretary of the Barak Valley Voluntary Blood Donors’ Forum, said that this was an attempt to create mass awareness on blood donation, clearing all the misconception about it. “There are so many people who still feel scared to donate blood. The rally is an attempt to increase awareness in the community on safe and sustainable blood donation,” he said.
Paul said that they would meet the Minister of Health and Education, Himanta Biswa Sarma, at Guwahati and the President of India, Pranab Mukherjee, at Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi, on their way to Wagah.
The Barak Valley Voluntary Blood Donors’ Forum had consecutively won 1st prize in 2006, 2007, 2008 among the 10 best organizers of voluntary blood donation camp. The Forum also has won the award in this year. Established in 2002, the Forum has been organizing various blood donation camps in different parts of the Valley for the last 10 years.
Source: the sentinel assam
As part of its campaign, the motor cycle rally, which is organized to commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda by the Forum, was kicked off from Sutarkandi in Karimganj district, bordering Bangladesh, yesterday. After taking shelter in the town, they started for Haflong early in this morning and will take night halt there, before starting for Guwahati on the following day.
The rally will move through 150 districts of the country and later would assemble at Wagha, a village in Punjab, bordering Pakistan and from where they will again return back to Sutarkandi on February 7, covering around 8,600 km distance. It will move through the eight State capitals of the country- Shillong, Guwahati, Kolkata, Ranchi, Lucknow, Delhi and Chandigarh.
Among 20 participants, there are 7 government employees. The oldest participant is Hiralal Debnath, a 63-year-old retired employee, and the youngest is Biswa Kalyan Purkayastha, a 24 year-old-student. The longest rally ever organized by any forum in Northeast to create awareness on blood donation, will cross around 4,290 km distance on its way to Wagah, while returning back to Sutarkandi, it will cover around 4,435 km. Moreover, 30 members of the West Bengal Voluntary Blood Donors’ Forum will join this rally at Barasat of West Bengal.
The Forum will hold street corner meetings to disseminate the messages of voluntary blood donation.
At a time when the entire country is undergoing through a social degradation, this attempt by the Forum has earned applaud from all sections of the society. Ashu Paul, secretary of the Barak Valley Voluntary Blood Donors’ Forum, said that this was an attempt to create mass awareness on blood donation, clearing all the misconception about it. “There are so many people who still feel scared to donate blood. The rally is an attempt to increase awareness in the community on safe and sustainable blood donation,” he said.
Paul said that they would meet the Minister of Health and Education, Himanta Biswa Sarma, at Guwahati and the President of India, Pranab Mukherjee, at Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi, on their way to Wagah.
The Barak Valley Voluntary Blood Donors’ Forum had consecutively won 1st prize in 2006, 2007, 2008 among the 10 best organizers of voluntary blood donation camp. The Forum also has won the award in this year. Established in 2002, the Forum has been organizing various blood donation camps in different parts of the Valley for the last 10 years.
Source: the sentinel assam
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